Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning

[Mike]

Starting Thursday, Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from customers' computers across the United States and automatically replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution.

This comes after Kaspersky decided to shut down its U.S. operations and lay off U.S.-based employees in response to the U.S. government adding Kaspersky to the Entity List, a catalog of "foreign individuals, companies, and organizations deemed a national security concern" in June.

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[batman]

Oh, dear. This is rather alarming. 

I'd advise canceling the auto-renewal for the subscription.